Stars Quotes - Page 19

• To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Night, Thinking, World

  Cecil Rhodes (1902). “The last will and testament of Cecil John Rhodes: with elucidatory notes to which are added some chapters describing the political and religious ideas of the testator”

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• Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It's the sense I have that some of those points of light are the home stars of beings not so different from us, daily cares and all, who look across space with wonder, just as we do.

  Frank Drake

  Lying, Home, Dark

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• Be strong to hope, O Heart!
  Though day is bright,
  The stars can only shine
  In the dark night.
  Be strong, O Heart of mine,
  Look towards the light!

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Strong, Heart, Dark

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.77

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• I work with a lot of movie stars.

  Norman Jewison

  Movie Star

  "Profile and Interview: Norman Jewison". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January, 2004.

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• The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.

  Jean Paul

  Heart, Space, Heaven

  Jean Paul (1862). “Titan: A Romance”, p.473

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• Lie on your back and look at the stars.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Lying, Small Joys, Looks

  H. Jackson Brown Jr., Rochelle Pennington (2001). “Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well”, p.95, Harper Collins

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• The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.

  Jim Lovell

  Real, Space, Friendly

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• Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Space, Atoms

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• Mr. McCleod: And if there's anything I want you guys to take with you from this class, as you're abusing your bodies over break, is three things: the heart is the body's strongest muscle, that the brain has more cells in it than our galaxy has stars, and that the body is 72% water. So wherever you go over vacation, don't get too dehydrated.

  Laura Kasischke

  Heart, Vacation, Cells

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• I stood beside a hill
  Smooth with new-laid snow,
  A single star looked out
  From the cold evening glow.
  There was not other creature
  That saw what I could see,
  I stood and watched the evening star
  As long as it watched me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Long, Snow, Evening

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.

  Jules Verne

  New York, Ocean, Future

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• Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Future, Men, Law

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• One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

  Beryl Markham

  Future, Men, Curves

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.

  Steve Case

  Believe, Passion, Perspective

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• How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

  H. Rider Haggard

  Moving, Self, World

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1688, Delphi Classics

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• I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Drinking, Eye, Tears

  Anne Rivers Siddons (1994). “Downtown”, G K Hall & Company

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• There are 15 constants- the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc.- that have precise values. If any one of those constants was off by even one part in a million, or in some cases, by one part in a million million, the universe could not have actually come to the point where we see it. Matter would not have been able to coalesce, there would have been no galaxy, stars, planets or people

  Francis Collins

  Strong, People, Nuclear

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• The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe.
  The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightening and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not.

  Swami Prabhavananda

  Heart, Moon, Fire

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• Shailene Woodley is reason enough to see 'The Fault in Our Stars.'

  Leonard Maltin

  Faults, Reason, Enough

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• Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars.
  Gaze at the beauty of earth’s greenings.
  Now, think.
  What delight God gives to humankind
  with all these things .
  All nature is at the disposal of humankind.
  We are to work with it. For
  without we cannot survive.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Moon, Thinking, Giving

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• It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's insignificance in the long eternity of time; the desert speaks of his insignificance right now.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Men, Long, Desert

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• My game is going wrong - the star is setting

  Alberto Ascari

  Games, Settings, Setting

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• I want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are fictitious, like the constellations Orion, Cassiopeia’s Chair, the Big Dipper; the only thing real in them is the stars, and the only thing real in the creeds is the soul’s aspiration toward the Infinite.

  John Burroughs

  Real, Men, Rocks

  John Burroughs (1924). “Accepting the universe”

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• I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.

  Jules Massenet

  Departed, Useless, Occupation

  Jules Massenet (1971). “My Recollections (1848-1912).”

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• Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.

  Bud Selig

  Baseball, America, People

  "Quotes from congressional steroid hearing". The Associated Press, NBC Sports, March 17, 2005.

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